For a long time document understanding has been a research topic in computer sciences. We have seen conferences discussing concepts and approaches to use computers and machine learning for understanding documents. Quite often this topic appears also in proceedings on...
Learning the wrong things
Now this is a good example about the dangers of self learning. Many document understanding systems are using supervised learning as a method to teach their statistical algorithms. Normally this is done by supervisors with carefully selected sample documents. But more...
The Baby Computer
One of my fundamental beliefs is that software needs to be self adaptive to user behavior – or „learning“ to be able to mimic complex business processes that each of us is able to execute on a daily basis. For a long time we have seen that rules based systems go a...
Here it starts
This is the first post of this new site which is dedicated to the theoretical foundations and practical application of document understanding. And it is also with this post that the new company Skilja GmbH comes to life. Skilja is Icelandic and means “understand”. So...